A Geographical Study of Passenger Movement from Zuba Motor Terminal, Nigeria

This paper examines the nature and pattern of passenger movement from Zuba Motor Park to various towns in Nigeria. Questionnaires were administered to both passengers and drivers on the problems of interurban transport. Information on passenger flow was collected from the passengers register book at the motor park. Data on population and distances of destination towns were gotten from NPC's website and Google earth-software respectively. Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to compute the multiple linear regressions of flow (as dependent) and population and distance (as independents) variables. The findings revealed that most of the passengers are males and majority of them are either civil servants or traders by occupation, thus works or businesses account for most of the reasons for travelling. All the drivers are males, mostly married and majority fall within the age bracket of 20-30 years. However a great majority of them do not own the vehicle they use but were employed by vehicle owners, and their relationship with other road officials was fairly good, the major problem of interurban transport from the view of the passengers is, drivers careless driving or over speeding, and bad roads, while from the view of the drivers, their major problems are bad roads and harassment by law enforcement agencies working on the roads. Kaduna state had the highest passenger flow followed by Kano and Lagos. Kebbi, Zamfara and Kwara have the lowest passenger flow. The population is a positive and significantly related to flow while distance is negative related to flow. The two independent variables explained 61% variation in flow, signifying that there are other variables in effect. Recommendations were also stipulated as corrective measures to the smooth and convenient intercity passenger traffic flow.